August 27, 2025 • 8 mins
In the “World’s Strongest Take” Mark discusses his recent controversy over his comments on the Raja Jackson’s incident with Syko Stu at KnokX Pro Wrestling event in Sun Valley, California. He explains why his opinion was what it was and clears the air of misinformation concerning it. He also explains why he has that opinion and makes it clear that he is not excusing Raja’s actions. You can hear it all here on “The Morning Kickoff Show!”
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
That's what I know. That's what I do. You heard
to be drop. You know what that means? W w
ee Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
World's Strongest me d Mark Henry brings you is world's
strongest tape.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Take it away, big fellow.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Art.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
What's up man? You know what time it is?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
What time is?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's time for the world's strongest man with the world's
strongest tape. And sometimes you gotta set people straight. Bars.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
What's up, Marcus?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Back then they didn't know me. Now I'm hot, they
all on me. And when I say they all on me,
I mean they all over me on social media. Hold on,
Oh yeah on, hold on, hold on. We can't see you,
John Well, I mean, can you hear me though? Oh yeah,
there we go. Okay, I got you, I got you
your point okay, because I got I'm I'm going to
(01:10):
read my prepared statement. And then once I read my
prepared statement, I will come on and show my face
and give you.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
What the real business is.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I did say that what happened was excessive with.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
The young man.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
That was yeah Rojah Jackson, and that whole thing was
a mistake. What I said has nothing to do with race.
It has everything to do with ignorance about the wrestling business.
(01:53):
And I don't expect everybody to understand how organized pro
wrestling has been for the last hundred years because it's
been kept a secret. I don't like to see anybody
get hurt in the wrestling business, and I feel sorry
for the guys.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Psycho see It didn't deserve what he got.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But every action has a reaction, and there's consequences for
everything that you put out in this universe. And if
if it was a work, it was a horrible work,
and nobody's gonna remember it. All they're gonna remember is
the fact that Psycho see It got seriously hurt. Now
(02:36):
I'm gonna explain what a work is. A work is
a what you see is not really what you get.
There's what we've done now with pro wrestling, with Unreal
and every other expose the show is. We've told everybody
(02:57):
over the last five to ten years that pro wrestling
is entertainment, that pro wrestling is predetermined, that pro wrestling
is storytelling at an elite level with extremely talented people.
How you can be an elite pro wrestling and not
when an Oscar is beyond me? And I said the
(03:20):
only reason that you would be able to get an
oscar is if you expose the business totally so people
can understand how incredibly talented the people are that are
doing it. Well, we have that now, so let's see
if that happens. But the story is that you wake
(03:41):
up today and Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift getting their
impending nuptials are the number one thing trending. Right behind
that is Mark Henry, Mark Henry. I'm speaking myself as
a third person right now because I'm over here in
UK and I'm DJing successfully selling out every night two thousand,
(04:09):
one thousand people. Everything is great. I experienced zero racism.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
While I've been here, and.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I look on social media and people are tearing me
down for my take, calling me a racist. Well, first off,
it's impossible for me to be a racist because I
would have to have power over someone and in a
bigoted way. I'm not a bigot and I don't have
(04:41):
power over people. Now. There's people that work for me
and people that I work with. I don't ever have
to defend myself about being a racist. The people that
know me know who I am as a man and
as a person. It's a lot of ignorant people that
(05:02):
sit back behind their computers and they feel like it's
okay to verbally bash people.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
What it is is bullying. It's just like the.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Situation of Rajah going to wrestling to try to be
a wrestler and not being completely informed on what wrestling is.
And you got guys that are veterans, are so called
veterans that these guys, they could have very easily hard
(05:35):
smartened him up, which is another wrestling term where you say,
I'm gonna tell you everything there is to do what
I'm gonna say. I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do,
so you'll be prepared. Okay, all right, everybody's.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
On the same page. That didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You got these veteran guys drinking alcohol before the show,
and then they come out there and you hit one
of the kids up You hit the kid upside the
head with a beer can. He's supposed to understand and
process all this information. No, it's not gonna happen. And
(06:16):
then you got other guys inciting the riot. He goes
out there and he lays into this guy and he
beats him like he stole something.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And I do not condone that harge.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm gonna tell you from experience, Mark Henry was once upon.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
A time Rajah Jackson.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I got banished from wrestling and sent to Canada. And
if it wasn't for the Heart family who took my
ass in and said, Mark, we're gonna you have to
be educated. You don't know wrestling, you're a fan, let
us help you.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And they helped me. They educated me.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
They taught me how to be who I became, which
is a Hall of Fame wrestler, which is somebody that's
very well respected, not only in pro wrestling, but in
radio and television. Harde and to everybody listening, I have
not got one racist.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Bone in my body. I love people.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
God put me on this earth to be a helper
and to be a watcher. And you read the Bible,
you understand who the watchers are.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'm one of them.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And i just want to go on record as saying
I'm making zero apologies for what I said. I meant
every word, every single word I meant. You have to
be responsible on both sides. The WWE is where they
are because they do great business, because they smarten everybody up.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And when people go off script, they.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Get fine, they get suspended, they get sent away. Until
you know better, you can't be on our program. And
I don't work for them. I just respect the business.
So all of you fans out there that have these
racist tendencies and and all of vitry all for me,
(08:19):
have at it. You can't hurt me. I'm bulletproof. I'm
the world's strongest man. And that's my statement. And there
he is w W. E.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Hall of Famer and the world's strongest man, the Mark
Henry clearing the air on the trending topic, which is
Mark Henry.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And I'm not gonna do it in the third person
for you, though you good right, don't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Don't do it, but thank you for the time.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That's what he do, what I do.
That's what I know. That's what I do. You heard
to be drop. You know what that means? W w
ee Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
World's Strongest me d Mark Henry brings you is world's
strongest tape.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Take it away, big fellow.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Art.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
What's up man? You know what time it is?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
What time is?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's time for the world's strongest man with the world's
strongest tape. And sometimes you gotta set people straight. Bars.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
What's up, Marcus?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Back then they didn't know me. Now I'm hot, they
all on me. And when I say they all on me,
I mean they all over me on social media. Hold on,
Oh yeah on, hold on, hold on. We can't see you,
John Well, I mean, can you hear me though? Oh yeah,
there we go. Okay, I got you, I got you
your point okay, because I got I'm I'm going to
(01:10):
read my prepared statement. And then once I read my
prepared statement, I will come on and show my face
and give you.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
What the real business is.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I did say that what happened was excessive with.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
The young man.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
That was yeah Rojah Jackson, and that whole thing was
a mistake. What I said has nothing to do with race.
It has everything to do with ignorance about the wrestling business.
(01:53):
And I don't expect everybody to understand how organized pro
wrestling has been for the last hundred years because it's
been kept a secret. I don't like to see anybody
get hurt in the wrestling business, and I feel sorry
for the guys.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Psycho see It didn't deserve what he got.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But every action has a reaction, and there's consequences for
everything that you put out in this universe. And if
if it was a work, it was a horrible work,
and nobody's gonna remember it. All they're gonna remember is
the fact that Psycho see It got seriously hurt. Now
(02:36):
I'm gonna explain what a work is. A work is
a what you see is not really what you get.
There's what we've done now with pro wrestling, with Unreal
and every other expose the show is. We've told everybody
(02:57):
over the last five to ten years that pro wrestling
is entertainment, that pro wrestling is predetermined, that pro wrestling
is storytelling at an elite level with extremely talented people.
How you can be an elite pro wrestling and not
when an Oscar is beyond me? And I said the
(03:20):
only reason that you would be able to get an
oscar is if you expose the business totally so people
can understand how incredibly talented the people are that are
doing it. Well, we have that now, so let's see
if that happens. But the story is that you wake
(03:41):
up today and Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift getting their
impending nuptials are the number one thing trending. Right behind
that is Mark Henry, Mark Henry. I'm speaking myself as
a third person right now because I'm over here in
UK and I'm DJing successfully selling out every night two thousand,
(04:09):
one thousand people. Everything is great. I experienced zero racism.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
While I've been here, and.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I look on social media and people are tearing me
down for my take, calling me a racist. Well, first off,
it's impossible for me to be a racist because I
would have to have power over someone and in a
bigoted way. I'm not a bigot and I don't have
(04:41):
power over people. Now. There's people that work for me
and people that I work with. I don't ever have
to defend myself about being a racist. The people that
know me know who I am as a man and
as a person. It's a lot of ignorant people that
(05:02):
sit back behind their computers and they feel like it's
okay to verbally bash people.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
What it is is bullying. It's just like the.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Situation of Rajah going to wrestling to try to be
a wrestler and not being completely informed on what wrestling is.
And you got guys that are veterans, are so called
veterans that these guys, they could have very easily hard
(05:35):
smartened him up, which is another wrestling term where you say,
I'm gonna tell you everything there is to do what
I'm gonna say. I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do,
so you'll be prepared. Okay, all right, everybody's.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
On the same page. That didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You got these veteran guys drinking alcohol before the show,
and then they come out there and you hit one
of the kids up You hit the kid upside the
head with a beer can. He's supposed to understand and
process all this information. No, it's not gonna happen. And
(06:16):
then you got other guys inciting the riot. He goes
out there and he lays into this guy and he
beats him like he stole something.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And I do not condone that harge.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm gonna tell you from experience, Mark Henry was once upon.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
A time Rajah Jackson.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I got banished from wrestling and sent to Canada. And
if it wasn't for the Heart family who took my
ass in and said, Mark, we're gonna you have to
be educated. You don't know wrestling, you're a fan, let
us help you.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And they helped me. They educated me.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
They taught me how to be who I became, which
is a Hall of Fame wrestler, which is somebody that's
very well respected, not only in pro wrestling, but in
radio and television. Harde and to everybody listening, I have
not got one racist.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Bone in my body. I love people.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
God put me on this earth to be a helper
and to be a watcher. And you read the Bible,
you understand who the watchers are.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'm one of them.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And i just want to go on record as saying
I'm making zero apologies for what I said. I meant
every word, every single word I meant. You have to
be responsible on both sides. The WWE is where they
are because they do great business, because they smarten everybody up.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And when people go off script, they.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Get fine, they get suspended, they get sent away. Until
you know better, you can't be on our program. And
I don't work for them. I just respect the business.
So all of you fans out there that have these
racist tendencies and and all of vitry all for me,
(08:19):
have at it. You can't hurt me. I'm bulletproof. I'm
the world's strongest man. And that's my statement. And there
he is w W. E.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Hall of Famer and the world's strongest man, the Mark
Henry clearing the air on the trending topic, which is
Mark Henry.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And I'm not gonna do it in the third person
for you, though you good right, don't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Don't do it, but thank you for the time.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That's what he do, what I do.
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